Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23011, John Emery, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Nass.
Emery, John or Emory Debora
No. 23011.
O.L. 7306-160-55
CONTENTS

: 6071. Maine
John Emery private
Massachusetts line - 3 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of — 8 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 of April 1810
Certificate of Pension issued the 8. of Jany 1819 and del. R. C. Vose
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1810. 4mo 25/30 - 38. 66 Semi-aul. all'ce ending 4, March 1819 - 48. 00
$86. 66
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
17 Bloomfield
Continued
Notification sent December 20. 1820 to R. C. Vose, Augusta, Maine

Deborah Emory
Deborah Emory widow of John Emory who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Blind from 1800 described on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence on 4th day of March , 1848.
1st July Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of February 1837 and sent to
Hon J. Otis W. C. R.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act January 2, 1848, Page 10 Vol. 1
by J. May 8, T. S. Hopkins

Vol. 101
Act March 3/52 April 12/52
Deborah Emery widow of John Emery
Private of Nixon's Milk Line
306 War of Revolution
Recd Pension Act Feb 1845
Rolls June July 48 - No 4842
Buxton
Adm 160 Accts Oct 3/55
Dodge
Adm
Ebenezer Weston Shoreham Somerset Co Maine
Vol. E. 101. 80

I John Emery of Bloomfield in the county of Somerset and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do on oath testify and declare that I served as a private in the War of the revolution for the period of about five years that from my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support - I enlisted for eight months and continued in service nine months some time in Jan y 1775 - in the month of August 1776 I enlisted into Col Brewster Regiment for five months in about the month of May 1777 I enlisted into Capt Doagood's Company in Col Nixons Regiment of the Massachusetts Line and served until the 3 rd day of February 1780, at which time I was taken a prisoner near White Plains and retained as such ten months and ten days - I was then exchanged and received my discharge signed by Col of the at West Point That I have lost my discharge; consider- ing it of no value I believe it to have been worn out in my pocket book - I performed all the above Service with the Massachusetts Troops -
John Emery

Thenumber/s. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On this 10 day of April A. D. 1878 the within named John Emory after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the within declaration by him subscribed before me.
S. S. Wilde
Jus. Sup. Jud. Courts
for S d Com th ss

No 1 M rs Emery Bloomfield
6071
March 189
Can
Robert C. Vose Augusta Maine

State of Maine.
Somerset KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this Eighth day of November , 1820, personally appeared before in open Court before  Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, John Emery aged sixty six years, resident in Hoopefield in the County of Somerset within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Goodwin and Regiment commanded by Colonel Wiggin of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years and was in both the battles at the taking of Burgoyne , was taken prisoner by the enemy & detained in close prison in the City of New York four teen months more than eight months after his three years had expired, and previously served in eight months service in 1775 and was in the battle of Bunker Hill that his original declaration was made before Judge Waldo on the
day of April 1818; that he is now on the Pension  Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered  . And I, the said John Emery do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
John Emery
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:
Real Estate none
Old house & held stuff (besides bedding) not exceeding sixteen dollars. I have debts due me which may be collected to the amount of sixty five dollars and not more. I owe as much as five dollars. I have no trade my occupation is that of a farmer, by my old age and being subject to the Rheumatism. I am able to do but little labor; my family consists of my self and my wife Deborah aged fifty seven years, as healthy as most people of her age; and my daughter Mary aged fifteen years. Except the above and my necessary bedding and clothing I have no estate or income whatever.
John Emery
Subscribed Sworn to and dictated both oath and schedule this eighth day of November A.D. 1820 Josiah Stebbins, a Judge of the C.C.P. Pleas P.R. Circuit

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Acts of Congress granting pensions to the widows of the Officers & Soldiers of the Revolution.
State of Maine } Somerset County } ss. On the sixteenth day of March * AD 1848 personally appeared before me Charles Green Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills &c (it being a Court of Record) in the County of Somerset in the State of Maine in the County of Somerset in the State of Maine Deborah Emery a resident of Bloomfield in the County of Somerset & State of Maine aged Eighty four who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the Acts of Congress granting pensions to the widows of the Officers & Soldiers of the Revolution. That she is the widow of John Emery who was a pensioner of the United States as a soldier under the Act of March 18 th 1818 - that he was allowed a pension under said Act of Ninety six Dollars per Annum payable at the Maine Agency where it was last paid to him in September 1847 - From which time to the time time of his death which took place on the twenty sixth day of February 1848 it has not been re  but  in  fact  not directly on her application in due form as his widow - That she refers to his declaration supposed to be in the War Department in support of her claim - That she does know of his entitlement but thinks the first was five months & one for three years - has heard him say he was in the Lexington & Bunker Hill battles, taking of Burgoyne, York Town & Stony Point. She further declares that she was married to the said John Emery in the Town of Chelsea in the State of Massachusetts in the winter of 1786 and that her husband the aforesaid John Emery died in the Town of Bloomfield in the County of Somerset and State of Maine on the twenty sixth day of February 1848 since which time she has remained a widow - That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to January 1794 as above stated. Sworn to & subscribed this day year above written } C. Green } Judge of the Court Deborah Emery - } - Probate * May 1

State of Maine } Yorke ss } I Thomas G. Jones Register of the Court of Probate for said county of Somerset hereby certify, that the Hon. Charles Green, before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is judge of the Court of Probate for said county, and that the foregoing is his signature,
Given under my hand and seal official of said court this sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred & forty eight
Thos. G. Jones Reg. of Probate

61.163
Deb & Emery

Declaration
State of Maine
forsooth County ss. On this fourth day of April A.D. 1855 before me a justice of the peace in & for said County & State personally appeared Deborah Emery aged ninety two years a resident of the Town of Bloomfield in the State of Maine who being duly sworn according to Law declares that she is the widow of John Emery deceased who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War in a Company & Regiment not now recruited from great age & the lapse of time that her said husband enlisted in the three years service & several other enlistments and served out his engagement & was honorably discharged at or near the close of the war. She further states that she was lawfully married to her said husband by Elder Cross man a Baptist clergyman in the Town of Chelsea in the State of Massachusetts for the particulars of which as to time she begs leave to refer to the papers & proofs adduced on her application for pension under the act of Feb'y 1848 that her said husband died in the month of Feb'y 1848 and that she is now a widow. She makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of Congress approved on the 3rd of March 1855 -
Deborah Emery mark
Attest Joseph Emery
We Joseph Emery & Francis Gilbar residents of the Town of Bloomfield in the State of Maine upon our oaths declare that the foregoing Declaration was signed and acknowledged by the said Deborah Emery in our presence & we believe from her appearance & statements that she is the identical person she represents herself to be -
Joseph Emery Francis Gilbar

The foregoing Declaration & affidavit were sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year above written & I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be & that I am not interested in this claim -
Eusebia Weston Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Penobscot County ss. I George A. Hobbs Clerk of the Judicial Court of the County & State aforesaid do certify that Eusebia Weston is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified and that her signature above written is genuine -
Given under my hand & the seal of the aforesaid Judicial Court of said State on this seventh day of April AD 1855
Geo. A. Hobbs. Clerk

In the Records of the Town of Chelmsford in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Book V. page 39) is found the following, to wit: -
"Entries of Marriages from Mr. Abisha Crossman pastor of the baptist church in Chelmsford - 'John Emery & Deborah Coburn were married January the ninth, seventeen hundred and Eighty Six'"
The above is a true copy of record with the exception of the date , which is expressed in fair legible figures as follows "January 9 th 1786"
Attest
E. F. Webster. Town Clerk of the Town of Chelmsford }
I, Eli F. Webster, above named depose & say, that I am Clerk of the Town of Chelmsford in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, & that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town, with the exception named as above certified by me
E. F. Webster Clerk of the Town of Chelmsford }
Middlesex ss: April 3 d 1848, - Sworn to Before me
Benj. Adams
Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex Co.
I Elias Thumey Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Middlesex do certify that Benjamin Adams is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Middlesex, duly Commissioned and qualified, and that his name subscribed to the within Certificate is his genuine signature —
In testimony whereof I have here to set my hand & affixed the Seal of said the Eleventh day of April A.D. 1848. —
E. Thumey

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
AWF/HMM
May 9, 1930.
Miss Ella F. Elliot 59 Oxford Street Somerville Massachusetts.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 23011 , it appears that John Emery served as a private with the Massachusetts troops as follows:
From May or June 1775 nine months, names of officers not given and was in the battle of Bunker Hill; from in August 1776 five months in Colonel Brewer's Regiment; from May 1777 in Captain Toogood's Company, Colonel Thomas Nixon's Regiment. He was in both battles at the taking of Burgoyne and on February 3, 1780 was taken prisoner at White Plains and held in close confinement in New York for ten months and ten days when exchanged.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 10, 1818, at which time he was living in Bloomfield, Somerset County, Massachusetts (Maine District), aged sixty-four years.
He died February 26, 1848 in Bloomfield, Maine.
The soldier married January 9, 1786, in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Deborah Coburn.
She was allowed pension on her application executed May 16, 1848, at which time she was living in Bloomfield, Maine and was aged eighty-four years.
In 1820 the soldier referred to his daughter, Mary, as aged sixteen years.
In 1848 Joseph Emery, then residing in Bloomfield, Maine, stated that he had lived with John Emery "ever since I was born", no relationship shown.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

603. Maine
Deborah Emory widow of John Emory who was a Private in the Revolution
Husband died 28 th Feby. 1848
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1848 26 Feby.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of May, 1849 and sent to
Ebenezer Weston Showhegan Somerset, Me.
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 3.

John Emory (me) act 18 March 1818, $91 00 p r ann
To what time was he last paid?
Pension Office
46 A
May 22 nd 1849 { Died 26 th Feb. 1848 pa to his death.
B. J. B.

Skane 4/12
Deborah Emery widow of John Emery who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of May, 1849, and sent to Eusebius Weston Showhegan, Somerset, Me.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 10 Vol. 1.
Sim. Eusebius Wright 5th Nov. 1849

mmh W 23011
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 22, 1922
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of John Emery a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his and (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 11 1775 9 mos. Pvt no officers named Mass.   Aug. 1776 5 mos. 10 Brewer   x May 1777 to Feb. 3, 1780 Isaac Good Thomas Nixon   Feb. 3-1780 he was taken prisoner at White Plains and held in close confinement in New York for 10 mos. + 10 days ex r  
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill and both battles of taking of Burgoyne Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated Date of application for pension, Apr. 10, 1818. His cl. was al. Residence at date of application, Bloomfield, Somerset Co., Mass. (Me.) Age at date of application, Aged 66 years in 1820.
Remarks: Soldier died Feb. 26, 1848 in Bloomfield, Me. On Jan. 9, 1786 in Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., Mass. he married Deborah Coburn who was al. pension on her ap. ex. May 16, 1848 while a res. of Bloomfield, Me. aged 84 yrs. She was still liv. in 1855. In 1820 soldier referred to his daughter Mary aged 16 yrs. No further family data.
Mr said Bloomfield -
Joseph Emery dated in me res Bloomfield Me 1848. that he had a wife - in 1820 J. S. ever said I was no rel. known
Commissioner.

J.H. [Signature]
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C.
Mar 23 1899
of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary war may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
O. W. & N. DIV. REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
Sir:-
In reply to your communication of a recent date, you are informed that the courtesy of furnishing information relative to Revolutionary war soldiers, on account of whose service pensions were granted, is extended by this Bureau only to their descendants, and to them only when it is desired for historical or genealogical purposes.
In view of the large number of such inquiries now being made, and of the length of time required to make a proper search of the records in each case, information will not be given to any applicant concerning more than two soldiers.
In order that the claim of the soldier concerning whom you desire information may be identified, it is requested that you furnish as much as possible of the data called for below.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Rev. Judkins M.D. Denver, Colo. House of Representatives
Full name of soldier,
John Emery
Place of residence before service,
(Town, county, and State.)
Place of residence after service,
Bloomfield Somerville Maine
(Town, county, and State.)
Approximate date of death,
Given name of widow,
Did either the soldier or his widow receive a pension?
I am told that he did
Additional information,
Signature,
C. W. Judkins M.D.
(Mrs. or Miss to be prefixed if a lady signs.)
Post office address,
including street and number, town, county, and State,
Casper - Pitkin Co. Colorado

Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C., Dear Sir,
28 th
Will you please send me the Pension records of:
1. Timothy Pollard, who served as a private in H. H. & d. in Maine in 1822.
1820 Pension List : p. 99
1835 ditto : p. 68
2. John Emery, who served as a private in Mass. and is found among the Maine Pensioners, 1820 List, p. 68; & 1840 List, res. Bloomfield, Me., aged 87.
Very truly,
Miss Ella F. Elliot 59 Oxford St. Somerville Mass.
Feb. 28, 1930

88 Lawrence Ave.
8/13
Commissioner of Pensions Washington - D.C.
Dear Sir,
I have written to the adjutant general of the War Department at W. to ask about John Enang, private, Capt. S. goods Co., in the Battalion of the Mass. Bay Forces. He says the records of the War Dept are far from complete and suggested that additional information may be obtained from the

Commissioner of Pensions So I am acting on that suggestion in order to get revolutionary records of my ancestors There is also a John Wm Emery private Capt. Caleb Kimball Co Col. Jacob Perish's Mass. Regiment.
Also I would be very grateful for information of a Hamilton of York P. further information Maine son of Jonas Hamilton who served in the Revolutionary

War.
Yours very respectfully Adah Emery Prentiss 88 Lawrence ave New Brunswick N Jersey.

M. T. EMERY, Agent, GOAL AND WOOD. 174 W. FIFTH STREET. TELEPHONE 1272.
John Emery
E
not
St. Paul, Minn., Feb'y 27, 1895
W m Lochren Esq.,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir, - Will you kindly send me a copy of the Rev- olutionary services of John Emery, a Pensioner from Somerset County Maine, as appears in his application for a pension?
Yours Truly,
M.T. Emery.

Emery Int. etc.
23.011 WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23,011
Deborah Emery Widow of John Emery Rev Rev
Act Feb 2nd 1848
Index: Vol A , Page 217
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Apr 25 1848 - to Mr. ? 174 N. 5th St. St. Paul, Minn
May 16 '99 C. O. Judkins Aspen Colo
Feb 24-1902 Chas. C. M. Moody - Phila
Sept 22 - Sept 22 - Hick to back Mary Prentiss - MMK 1936 May 10 - Hick to Ella S. allied with

State of Maine.
I William Allen Clerk, for the County of Somerset of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is Eighty one dollars and  cents; and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is Eighty one dollars and  cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this Eighth day of November 1820.
William Allen Clerk of said Court for the County of Somerset

Eusebius Weston Justice of the peace
State of Maine Somerset County ss.
This is to certify that Eusebius Weston written above is an acting Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Somerset that he is duly qualified ac- cording to our Laws to take acknowledgments & do other form all other acts which a Justice in this State can do His Commission is dated June 28 th 1844 and will expire in June 1851.
Witness my hand & the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 21 st day of October 1848
Dwellyn Kidder Clerk of the Judicial Courts for Somerset County

No 678 Deborah Emery mo of John Mr Act 17 June 44 & 2 Jely 48
Mumma 1784 husband died 26 Jely 48
Adm'd $80. Probate In 4 March 1848
Ebenezer Weston Shurton Somerset Co Mr

Know all men by these presents that I Joseph Emery of Bloomfield in the County of Somerset & State of Maine of lawful age do depose & say that I have been an inhabitant of the same house with Mr John Emery late of said Bloomfield deceased ever since I was born and that he has lived with me for many years in said house, and I further say that said John Emery has drawn a pension of ninety six Dollars per Annum ever since March 18 th 1818 and he died on the twenty sixth day of February A D 1848 - And I further say that Deborah Emery widow of said John Emery now lives with me & drew the balance of said John Emery's pension due at the time of his death and is now an applicant for a pension as his widow according to Law -
Joseph Emery
State of Maine Somerset County } Be it known that on the sixth day of August 1848 before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid personally appeared Joseph Emery above named & made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition Given under my hand the day & year above written in testi- mony thereof -
Eusebius Weston Justice of peace

To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber being one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify to your Honor, that John Emery a citizen of the United States now resident in Bloomfield in the District of Maine & Commonwealth aforesaid.
On the 10 th day of April A.D. 1878. made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, & such other evidence as was in his power to produce; & to trans- mit the same & the proceedings to be had thereon to your Honor, that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an act entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War - passed March 18 th A.D. 1818.
Which declaration & the other evidence produced by the said Applicant is hereto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor that after a careful examination of the said Applicant & a full consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said Applicant did serve as a private soldier, on the continental establishment, against the Common Enemy, in the War of the Revo- lution for the term of more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid, & that from reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his Country for support.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, & have caused the seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court to be hereunto affixed this first day of July A.D. 1878.
S. S. Wilder
J. S. J. South for S. South

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec ss.
The subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable Samuel J. Wilde Esq., before whom the annexed proceedings were had, is one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of this Commonwealth; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this certificate, bearing His signature, the seal of said Court. —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand. Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred & eighteen. —
John Davis

Deposition of Samuel Emery in behalf of John Emery

I Samuel Emery of lawfull age do testify and say that John Emery served as a Soldier three years in the first three years service in the Revolutionary War with Britain and served with in Capt Tozad's Company in Col. Thomas Higon's Regiment, which General Higon Brigaded, I am certain that John Emery did serve the three years in said Tozad's Company, for I was Sergeant of the same Company the whole time further your deponent saith not
Samuel Emery
April 27: 1810
Somerset ss. Then the above named Samuel Emery personally appeared and made oath that the above disposition by him subscribed was true in every part
Before me Elazer Coburn. Just. of Peace
Somerset ss. April 27 1810 I hereby certify that the above named Samuel Emery is a credible witness
Elazer Coburn Just. of Peace

7306
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West Angus

No. 61,163
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received April 12, 1875.
John Emery Rev. War
Warrant No. 7306.160-55
Eusebius Weston Shohegan Somerset Co. Maine

I hope it will not be considered too onerous to look for testimony in cases like Deb te Emery in her pension papers - They are married in Mass d & N H do

Augusta Maine
Jan'y 30. 1851
Dear Sir
I herewith enclose as agent for Mary Boies — Deborah Emery — & Sarah Weymouth their respective Pension Certificates, in order to have their claims for increase of Pension allowed. Will you have the goodness to present them to the Commr of Pensions and request him to allow their claim, and send me as their agent Certificates for them,
Very Respectfully
Yrs
Geo W. Morton
Hon. John Otis
M. b.
Washington,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WIDOWS' PENSION
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Deborah Emory, of Maine, widow of John Emory, who was a Private, in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars and _____ cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior this 25 th day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
T. Ewing
Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and Countersigned.
A. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Oct 4 1849
FREE
Calivar & Pennock Washington City
My dear Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd inst. and in reply to inform you that the same has been forwarded to the proper authorities for their consideration. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Calivar & Pennock
It is requested that you will be so kind as to acknowledge the receipt of this letter and to inform us of the result of your consideration of the same. We are, Sir, your obedient servants, Calivar & Pennock
It is requested that you will be so kind as to acknowledge the receipt of this letter and to inform us of the result of your consideration of the same. We are, Sir, your obedient servants, Calivar & Pennock

Stowbridge Sept 7 th 1849
Dear Sir
I rec d your favor of Sept 3 rd in reply say that Mrs Lydia Hayden is the widow of Jonathan Hayden of Madison in the County of Somerset - Me - he has died sometime about 1841 in family as near as I can recollect but have no date before me to shew the fact I got her name inscribed on the pension, roll I have drawn her pension ever since to the expiration of the term when her Certificate was returned. I can't say for certainty whether she drew under the Extension Laws or not but think her certificate extended to the 4 th of March 48 - She has drawn her pension regularly through my hand ever since the death of her husband to that time & last fall I executed a Declaration for her to be again inscribed on the roll under the last Law & forwarded it somewhere about Oct or the first part of Nov last & about the time I sent Mrs Deborah Emery's widow of John Emery & Sarah Weston widow of Joseph Weston, tonight after - I sent two together & one a long - don't recollect which was alone but there was not more than a few weeks between them - Mrs Hayden is still living & if necessary I must make another declaration & forward it - This was so plain a case I did not change my mind with it - She drew 23, 22 the same her husband drew before & the small the money has become so important to her that I have advanced a part of it to help her along - I shall be further obliged to you if on the receipt of this the subject can be fully investigated & a certificate forwarded or notice that I may for the future forward a new declaration if necessary - The document I sent last fall was directed to you & marked as pertaining to Mrs Hayden's pension on the outside over

I take the liberty to introduce the subject of Mary Boies' pension tho' I suppose it more proper to send separately — John Boies of Mad- ison died several years ago & had always drawn 96.00 per annum. After his decease I obtained a Certificate for his widow then Mary Boies at 80.00 per annum. Now under the Act of Feb'y 2 nd does she or not be- come entitled to that difference & if so, are you thus sufficiently informed to grant & issue orders & certificates requisite for her to obtain that difference? If not I would be informed as to the modes, operands. — I have obtained one for Mrs Ruth Seward through my friend G W Morton Esq r .
Again — Mrs Deborah Emery of Bloomfield Widow of John Emery seems to me to be situated similarly — in both these cases they draw their 80.00 & have drawn this full & are both now living — It will serve the cause of humanity to give these cases as early attention as is consistent with the duties of the Office doing much, oblige your humble servant with Respectful Esteem
Honble J L Edwards Washington City — D.C.
Ebenezer Weston
The details of the Law of Feb'y I have never had & therefore am dark on the subject If the State were ordered to publish the US Laws it would be convenient P.S. If this goes with equal expeditious communications will reach this place from your City & be answered in about 7 or 8 days Considerable sharing is practiced through agents in the country connected with persons about the Pension Office —

Enclosed is the Application for Pension of Deborah Emery Law of July 4, 1836 } Widow of John Emery late of Bloomfield Somerville Me
Honble J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions War Department
Washington City

Honble J L Edwards
Commissioner of pension
You enclosed are papers in behalf of Mrs Deborah Emery of Bloomfield widow of John Emery whose declaration will show that he was among list of Mass. Should any thing appear wrong or any thing be found wanting you will have the goodness to have me apprized of it —
With sentiments of respectful Esteem
your Obed t Serv t —
Ebenezer Weston
Skowhegan Somerset 6 o Me
Sept r 20 th 1848
P.S. The papers will be found fastened together but not exactly in form — Judge Green took charge of them after Execution to affix signatures & had the seal affixed as seen — I then have to put them together informally which I hope will make no essential difference — and the certificate of the Clerk of the other Court is not literally in compliance with the Office regulation but he is now in the Office & I could not control what he insisted on as right — I conform as to material points & hope it will be received. —